Ábalos + Sentkiewicz is an international architecture studio
combining widely honored academic, professional and research activity. The
partners have taught at ETSAM, Architectural Association, Columbia, Cornell,
Princeton, and the Harvard GSD where Ábalos is currently Chair of the
Department of Architecture.
The studio's projects are internationally recognized with over
20 individual and collective exhibitions including AA-London, Pavillon de
l'arsenale-Paris, MoMA and the Venice Biennale. A + S has received over 80
architecture and design awards. Critic William Curtis chose their Pavilion in
Madrid's Retiro Park as one of the three best works built in Spain during the
last 30 years. Ábalos + Sentkiewicz' professional work has been collected in 10
monographs and their academic research has been compiled in 12 books.
Iñaki Ábalos received his Master´s and Ph.D. degrees in Architecture from the
School of Architecture of Madrid. He was a Co-Founder and Director of the
esteemed Spanish architecture firm Ábalos & Herreros for over two
decades before establishing his current studio. He also is the Founder and
Director of Laboratorio de Técnicas y Paisajes Contemporáneos in Spain.
Ábalos was given a RIBA International Fellowship in 2009. He is the author
of Le Corbusier: Skyscrapers; Tower and
Office and Natural Artificial among many others.
Ábalos also curated the Spanish Pavilion at the 2014 Venice
Biennale.
Renata Sentkiewicz has a Master's of Science from the Cracow Polytechnic
School of Architecture. A Founder and Director of Abalos+Sentkiewicz, she is
also a member of the Zero Energy Alliance and a Design Critic at the Harvard
GSD. Her professional work has been widely published in different national and
international publications. An exhibition about her work, Dualisms:
Abalos + Sentkiewicz was held at the GSD. Sentkiewicz has given
workshops and seminars in architecture and landscape in different international
cities including the Berlage Institute, the IUAV in Venice, the Festarch
Cerdegna, and the Universal Nacional de Colombia.
Their work has been widely published in journals and monographs,
such as Abalos & Herreros; Abalos & Herreros, Grand
Tour; Abalos + Sentkiewicz Arquitectos -Thermodynamic Beauty;
Abalos + Sentkiewicz: Form, Matter, and Energy and Essays on
Thermodynamics, Architecture and Beauty.
